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byretroworks ( 652802 ) writes:
This is very worrisome, glad to see it being discussed. According to the USA Bureau of Labor Statistics, health care employment accounts for (by far) most of the growth in jobs in the USA http://www.bls.gov/oco/cg/cgs035.htm [bls.gov]. What happens when a new sport surgeon opens an office in your county? What happens when a urologist opens an office in a town of 10,000 residents? The free market says that when people take employment providing a "service" which they themselves are empowered to prescribe, that pr
byDrgnDancer ( 137700 ) writes:
The second broken arm was $10,000 more than the first, but the first "treatment" resulted in your arm breaking in exactly the same way a second time. Don't get me wrong, there are a ton of factors involved in the location and severity of a bone break, and it may well have been inevitable that your arm would break the same way when you injured yourself in a similar manner; *but* it's also arguable that the less elaborate and complete first treatment resulted in the bone healing weaker and more likely to reb
bytwebb72 ( 903169 ) writes:
I'd probably side with the doctors on this one. I've broken my collar bone several times, the the first time is nothing like the third. Each time, bone is weaker, and structurally, its fubar. Each additional break causes more and more structural and nerve problems (i get the occasional pain *PANG* from bending in the wrong direction).
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